10 Apr 09 Know More About Forex Brokers

You need to understand that forex brokers are above all marketing machines. Forex brokers continuously require a flow of new clients, since many retail forex traders dont survive longer than a few months. After losing, more than 90% simply quit and give up forex trading.

For enticing new clients, vast sums of money are spent on advertising by forex brokers. You can check this fact by going on Google and typing any forex related keyword. Almost all the ads will be by forex brokers. Each click costs them around $1.

One way is to announce forex trading contests that reward the winners with $2000, $1000 and $500 cash prizes. Who is the actual winner in these contests? Your forex broker!

Most of the traders get wiped out trying to win the contest. This trick is almost like a lottery. Only a few win, rest loses! But in the end its your forex broker who makes the most money.

There is no check on the forex brokers. They can quote any rate to you. Forex brokers do this by adding 2 3 or even more pips to the interbank market pip spread

These 3 or 4 pips are the risk free profits that the brokers make for each round trip trade. You see why forex brokers are giving you free platforms and trading signals, only to make you start trading as soon as possible. Your broker will make more risk free money, the more you trade!

Price shading is another practice used by forex brokers. If the broker thinks that price of a particular currency is on a rising trend, the broker will add a few pips to the currency quote in anticipation of that move. You cant do anything.

One of the best tricks that forex brokers use is Stop Loss Tripping. If they find many stop losses at a particular level, there will be a momentary blip in the price feed to take out most of the stop losses.

You cant do anything. It was a momentary spike, so small that it only tripped the stop losses.

Since, there is no central exchange to compare moment by moment prices, your broker can offer any excuse like there was sudden large order in the market or the broker feed is much faster and reflects true interbank rates.

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